With the rest of the county awash, Belmont remained (almost) dry. The Fixture Secretary's XI, fielding first in what started as a T20 in rain, elected to change it to T30 when the rain stopped, but continued to struggle with the ball shooting off the wet wicket. In...
No, not balloons but the combined age of the Straggler first change bowlers, the Master Brewer and the Chairman. The red mist had descended on the Straggler batsmen earlier in the afternoon, who, with the honourable exceptions of Theo and the said Brewer, seemed to...
Running between the wickets frequently presents interesting challenges for the marginally aware or alert. At Broadstairs against Thanet U17, both sides managed to produce moments of high farce. The highlight for the Stragglers was to see both Olla Tennant and Tom Wood...
In 1789 King George III despatched a cricket touring party to enhance cross channel goodwill and improve social relations in France, then teetering on the edge of revolution under Louis XVI. They never made it beyond Dover, as they were met there by His Majesty's...
Sandwich exploded into life with a first ball beamer from the Boulanger that almost removed the batsman's head. This was followed by a knee high full toss, lobbed back to mid-on, where the Chairman made a meal of a regulation catch, parrying it before leaping like a...
Renowned slip fielder, Nigel Snape (see previous blog), has become somewhat less mobile in the field in recent weeks, the result of a repeatedly torn hamstring. Following the example of some younger pros, who have ventured abroad for specialist treatment or training,...
The semi-desert conditions and tropical heat of Torry Hill may have had somethng to do with it, but the Straggler fielding entered new realms of entertainment against the BaBes. Two Stragglers short on arrival, Nigel drafted in the spare BaBe, 11 year old Jonty...
There is no stopping the resurgent Jonathan Neame. Coming in with the upper order scratching about at 67 for 3 in the 20th over at Nonington, Jonathan launched the counter attack without bothering to play himself in. When he was out for 66 he had scored nearly three...
On a steamy afternoon at Belmont, and in spite of Patrick Mitchell's third Straggler century (all of which he has reached with a six!) the Stragglers were well trounced by the Turks, much as the Germans were doing to England's finest in Bloemfontein. Straggler bowling...
The 2010 season is seeing its fair share of generational baton passing. Not since 1956 have two Stragglers taken a hat trick in the same season, and at Highland Court Toby Russell-Vick emulated Theo Allport with his first hat trick in any cricket. And what's more the...